Bible Verses About Language
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for language, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,917 votes, led by Genesis 11:1-9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Language
Genesis 11:1-9257 votes
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
Zephaniah 3:9187 votes
For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.
1 Corinthians 14:9137 votes
So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
Revelation 7:9-10116 votes
After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
Exodus 4:10-12109 votes
And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
Isaiah 50:4103 votes
The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Deuteronomy 28:49102 votes
The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Psalms 19:1-499 votes
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Acts 2:1-1192 votes
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
1 Corinthians 14:1091 votes
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
1 Corinthians 14:27-2884 votes
If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
Proverbs 18:2180 votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Genesis 11:679 votes
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Isaiah 28:1174 votes
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Acts 2:870 votes
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Jeremiah 5:1566 votes
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
Acts 22:264 votes
(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
1 Corinthians 14:2261 votes
Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
Nehemiah 13:2449 votes
And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.
Ephesians 4:2947 votes
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Acts 2:1-1345 votes
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Colossians 4:637 votes
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
James 3:1-1236 votes
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Genesis 10:533 votes
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Psalms 19:1433 votes
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
What does the Bible say about language?
Readers most often cite Genesis 11:1-9 on the subject of language. Across 2,917 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Zephaniah 3:9, 1 Corinthians 14:9, Revelation 7:9-10. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.